Shingle, Madam ?

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 856, 27 December 1929, Page 10

Shingle, Madam ?

Girl Barbers Take Shops With Them TONSORIAL PEDLARS Many girls unable to obtain work as hairdressers in London aiul other cities are visiting villages as travelling barbers. They make their rounds with a white uniform, scissors, curling irons, and beauty lotions packed in a box in front of a bicycle or motorcycle. One girl, living at Lingfield. Surrey, covers a radius of ten miles from her home. Her fees are lower than in a hairdresser’s shop and she has found many customers among countrywomen, who are as particular about the smartness of their shingle as an> women in town. Every day she receives postcards or letters asking her to call at some remote village on a particular day, when several residents and their children will require attention. Another young woman has regular clients in a country hotel. In addition to trimming the waving hair, she gives beauty treatment. One travelling beauty specialist told a Pressman that she earns on an average £5 a week. A girl of IS has saved enough in six months to buy a small second-hand car to replace her bicycle. She not only cuts the hair of women and children, but also trims men’s hair and shaves them.